Governance of tourism destinations

Reflections on the contributions of the tourism observatories

Abstract

This study is an initial challenge to investigate the contributions that sustainable tourism observatories can have in the context of the public governance of tourism destinations. There are some studies that analyze tourism observatory models (e.g. Bertocchi et al., 2020; Brandão & Costa, 2010), public governance (OECD, 2020), and governance for sustainable tourism (Borges et al., 2014), but no specific studies have been identified that address their specific role in the context of destination governance in Portugal.